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Lessons from teaching gifted elementary school students: Index (updated)
I’m doing something that I should have done a long time ago: collect past series of posts into a single, easy-to-reference post. The following posts formed my series on various lessons I’ve learned...
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Engaging students: Reducing fractions to lowest terms
In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
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Engaging students: Fractions, percents, and decimals
In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
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Engaging students: Determining the largest fraction
In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
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My Favorite One-Liners: Part 14
In this series, I’m compiling some of the quips and one-liners that I’ll use with my students to hopefully make my lessons more memorable for them. This quip is similar to the “bag of tricks”...
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My Favorite One-Liners: Part 18
In this series, I’m compiling some of the quips and one-liners that I’ll use with my students to hopefully make my lessons more memorable for them. This is a quip that I’ll use when a theoretical...
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In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
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In my capstone class for future secondary math teachers, I ask my students to come up with ideas for engaging their students with different topics in the secondary mathematics curriculum. In other...
View ArticleWhat’s bigger: 1/3 pound burgers or 1/4 pound burgers?
I recently enjoyed reading about an unanticipated failed marketing campaign of the 1980s. Here’s the money quote: One of the most vivid arithmetic failings displayed by Americans occurred in the early...
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